#depression hacks

[etherealtidesandneonshadows]

Tips for writing with mental illness:

Pinterest is a legitimate way to become inspired or to research your story. One of my WIPs is partially from finding aesthetics I wanted to write about.

Bullet points and even asking yourself questions in the document is fine. Ex: "Do I want X to climb up the cliff or try to go get help?"

Writing anything, even if it's not related to your WIP, is fine. It's momentum.

Creating playlists is also a good source of inspiration and brainstorming. A lot of plot points from my current WIP were brainstormed during songs that inspired my creative juices.

[this-possum-cries]

[hotgirlsurvival]

[elf-indulgent]

before enjoying cooking: i'm locked into an endless cycle of cooking and eating food every day of my life :/

after tricking myself into enjoying cooking: i have so many more days of cooking and eating food in my life :D

[autistic-fairy]

How to wash your face with depression or just cuz you don't like doing it.

There was a poll about skin care going around and a lot of people were saying they don't wash their face. I was surprised by this then remembered I do it differently. Here's how

MICELLER WATER

GOD this stuff is a MIRACLE. No more dripping water down your arms and getting all wet. Maybe you get soap in your eyes.

Just take a cotton pad, drip some micellar on it and wipe your face. DONE. QUICK. NO MESS.

NOW GO AND WIPE THAT OIL OFF YOUR SKIN (if you want ig)

[victusinveritas]

[holyblanchett]

This has to be the realest shit Ava has ever said

[harrison-wells]

I didn't even make the connection at first between Deborah's father being an alcoholic and Deborah abusing alcohol herself after abandoning her lifelong dream. Her going back to her old (often hacky) material to fuel her other addiction (getting laughs, as DJ puts it) without moving forward by writing new material with Ava . And the fact that late night was the very thing that helped her cope with her father's alcoholism as a child… the more you think about it, the more fucked up it is.

[squidkid15]

lifetimes so long past they don't even seem like mine anymore

[writethatdown]

if you are someone who struggles with motivating yourself to attend to your chores, take care of yourself, or feel drained by the thought of hoarding so much responsibilities, i want to share a tip.

if you happen to be standing for some reason, try to complete all tasks that you usually do up standing. so for me, once i am on my feet, i do a sequence of activities like brushing my teeth, washing my face, ironing my clothes, brushing my hair, organizing my stuff for college, making my bed etc. without taking any break and i am able stack around 5 tasks comfortably. also, once the momentum is built, it gets easier!

similarly, if i am at my desk, sitting, i usually have my laptop there and always some work that needs to get done for college, admin or miscellaneous purposes. i try to do as much as i can.

this is particularly helpful for me because i am a big bedrot. especially when i am in pain or uncomfortable in general.

i just thought maybe it will help someone out there. this same hack might go in vain for me in a few weeks lol and i am just always figuring it out to push myself to be a functioning adult.

anyways, i hope u r taking care ♡

[liquid-bonhomme]

That's not what you fucking said though, is it Lily? If you're going to try to backpedal, you could at least delete the other fucking post.

"Those filthy disgusting druggies are a blight on society and they're horrible and they smell bad . . . But I guess they shouldn't be brutalized by the police or whatever."

First of all, it's clear by your post you don't seem to understand the difference between decriminalization and legalization. Second, it's clear from your enthusiasm to hop on the opportunity to talk shit you don't give a flying fuck about, nor do you support the rehabilitation and treatment of drug use for what it is: a symptom of greater mental health issues.

It's absolutely ghoulish and abhorrent for you to try to use your uncle's death and sister's hardships to lampshade your bullshit here Lily-- but I suppose that's not new behavior for you.

Your uncle was using medical grade cannabis-- which has been officially legal nation wide for YEARS and functionally legal here, if not officially, for even longer. Greencards were not hard to obtain. In BC and Ottowa they wouldn't even check if you had one. Weed did not kill your fucking uncle. Weed happens to be one of the few mind-altering substances that has NEVER been linked to anyone's direct cause of death. It is BY NO MEANS HARMLESS, and can have a seriously negative effect on certain people with other health issues or mental illnesses, however. I don't believe for a second you actually think weed is what caused your uncle's death or Courtney's drug issues. You're just using the general stigma around drug addiction and the profound damage the War On Drugs has done to the west.

Let it not go unacknowledged that this is yet ANOTHER example of how blatantly Lily couldn't care less about the marginalized communities she uses as a bludgeon to obfuscate criticism. No community has been more systemically disenfranchised in Canada by the stigma around addiction more than the First Nations community. Almost every time, the government makes excuses not to offer aid or relief in indigenous populations because "they will just use the funds to buy more drugs." In my province, entire reservations have been left WITHOUT CLEAN DRINKING WATER. Most of the homeless population in my city are First Nations people who have had their lives devastated by addiction. NIMBYs refuse to let safe-injection or other harm reduction clinics open near their homes and buisness, then endlessly bitch about the homeless people they left with no where to go loitering around their properties because they have nowhere to go. Certain months get so cold that freezing to death isn't an uncommon occurrence. The dead body of a homeless person was discovered in the dumpster of my middle school when I was a kid-- what a formative childhood memory that was.

Let us not forget how common drug abuse problems are in the LGBTQ+ community and among victims of SA. I went into extensive detail about my own experience in this post:

So quite this weenie pissbaby behavior. Quite this Motte-and-bailey J.K. Rowling mealy-mouthed bullshit.

You're really not even very good at disguising your own bigotry sweaty.

Edit: Courtney wanted it clarified she used drugs, but was never an addict. Lily's pedaled that line so much I never even thought to check with Courtney if it was true.

[reactionimagesdaily]

[willowfey]

u ever wake up from one of the worst nights ever and no matter what the day is like ur just like. wow. glad it’s not last night anymore. i hope i don’t have last night tonight

[thatswhatsushesaid]

I've worn the same t-shirt, I haven't washed my hair

But all of that's fine when I don't go outside 'cause lately I'm not fond of the light

And I colored in all of the lenses on my glasses

And stay in bed because it's better when I'm fast asleep

In my dreams, no one believes what they see

- Pink (Freak) by Elliot Lee